Twitter/External Links

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About Twitter

• Twitter homepage - only one of many ways to access the service
• A quick introduction to Twitter, written in chunks of 140 characters or less
• Another introduction, written in plain text, with screenshots of tweets
• Yet another introduction — a Prezi on Twitter for mathematicians
• A list of 100 scientists on Twitter, roughly grouped by discipline
• Twitter By The Numbers — some basic statistics about Twitter usage, as of April 2010
• Real-Time News Gathering — A talk on the use of Twitter in journalism
• How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive — Quote:

  Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter's inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress.

Twitter clients and applications

• TweetDeck — allows to manage Twitter accounts: visualizing tweets and direct messages, posting new ones, saved searches
• TweetStats — provides statistical descriptors of Twitter accounts
• Twitter for busy people — sorts tweeters chronologically by last tweet
• TwtShots — archives Twitter avatars
• Twitter Tim.es — provides a newspaper-inspired social aggregation functionality based on links that have been tweeted within the network of a Twitter user